Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 266 291
Rank change year-on-year -25 +25 -76
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 473 506 823
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.65% 1.15% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 1.23% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 199 305 491
10th Percentile £42,760 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,750 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £69,373 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +2.77% -6.90%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £127,000 £96,671 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.96% +8.33% -4.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 56,972 41,045 73,238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.05% 93.61% 87.51%
Number of salaries quoted 34,330 22,188 55,854
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.31%
75th Percentile £77,419 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £94,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 11 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -29 427 £75,000 +8.70% 253
London +48 240 £93,750 +25.00% 104
Work from Home +26 187 £75,000 +15.38% 156
UK excluding London -91 182 £63,076 -2.96% 153
North of England -28 52 £75,000 -1.64% 30
South East -52 46 £58,750 -9.62% 55
Midlands -43 35 £63,076 -4.79% 18
North West -10 33 £77,500 - 22
West Midlands -16 26 £60,288 -9.00% 10
East of England +13 21 £60,100 -12.58% 25
Yorkshire -30 17 £71,255 +119.25% 5
South West -46 17 £62,500 - 18
Northern Ireland -15 11 £75,000 +26.20% 1
East Midlands -50 9 £80,000 +33.33% 8
Wales -5 4 £61,001 +2.64% 3
North East -21 2 £63,076 -23.54% 4
Scotland -26 2 £42,500 -18.61% 10

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 16 (3.38%) Confluence
2 12 (2.54%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.63%) CMS
5 2 (0.42%) CICS
5 2 (0.42%) MTS
6 1 (0.21%) Drupal
Applications
1 19 (4.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (0.63%) Trello
6 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (2.75%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (1.06%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.63%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.42%) Workfront
5 1 (0.21%) Magento
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.21%) Shopify
5 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 57 (12.05%) SaaS
2 54 (11.42%) AWS
3 46 (9.73%) Azure
4 24 (5.07%) Power Platform
5 19 (4.02%) Pulumi
6 14 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (2.96%) GitHub
7 13 (2.75%) GCP
8 10 (2.11%) GitHub Copilot
9 9 (1.90%) H2O.ai
9 9 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (1.90%) OneDrive
9 9 (1.90%) OpenShift
9 9 (1.90%) PaaS
10 5 (1.06%) Asana
10 5 (1.06%) Snowflake
11 4 (0.85%) Collibra
11 4 (0.85%) Figma
11 4 (0.85%) Google Workspace
11 4 (0.85%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.29%) Broadband
2 10 (2.11%) HTTP
3 8 (1.69%) SD-WAN
4 7 (1.48%) WAN
5 6 (1.27%) LAN
5 6 (1.27%) RTP
6 5 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.63%) Multicast
7 3 (0.63%) Wireless
8 2 (0.42%) 5G
8 2 (0.42%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.42%) VPN
9 1 (0.21%) ATM
9 1 (0.21%) Bluetooth
9 1 (0.21%) Intranet
9 1 (0.21%) MPLS
9 1 (0.21%) Network Security
9 1 (0.21%) NGN
9 1 (0.21%) Value-Added Service
9 1 (0.21%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (4.86%) Power BI
2 21 (4.44%) NoSQL
2 21 (4.44%) Relational Database
3 20 (4.23%) RDBMS
4 18 (3.81%) Metadata
5 10 (2.11%) Data Lake
6 7 (1.48%) Tableau
7 6 (1.27%) SAP BW
7 6 (1.27%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.06%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.63%) Big Data
9 3 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.63%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.42%) DB2
11 1 (0.21%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (5.50%) JIRA
2 19 (4.02%) Jaeger
3 4 (0.85%) ERwin
4 3 (0.63%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.21%) ER Studio
General
1 184 (38.90%) Finance
2 170 (35.94%) Social Skills
3 105 (22.20%) Marketing
4 83 (17.55%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (11.21%) Banking
6 48 (10.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 44 (9.30%) Retail
8 40 (8.46%) Legal
9 35 (7.40%) Law
10 34 (7.19%) Influencing Skills
11 32 (6.77%) Financial Institution
12 26 (5.50%) Presentation Skills
13 22 (4.65%) Public Sector
14 21 (4.44%) Manufacturing
15 18 (3.81%) Digital Economy
16 17 (3.59%) Back Office
16 17 (3.59%) Organisational Skills
17 11 (2.33%) Automotive
18 10 (2.11%) Electronics
19 9 (1.90%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 140 (29.60%) Product Manager
2 69 (14.59%) Lead
3 61 (12.90%) Senior
4 36 (7.61%) Senior Manager
5 30 (6.34%) Senior Product Manager
6 27 (5.71%) Product Owner
7 19 (4.02%) Product Lead
8 18 (3.81%) Digital Product Manager
9 17 (3.59%) Product Management Director
10 16 (3.38%) Change Manager
11 15 (3.17%) Developer
12 12 (2.54%) Data Manager
13 11 (2.33%) Development Engineer
14 10 (2.11%) Cloud Engineer
14 10 (2.11%) Security Engineer
14 10 (2.11%) Senior Development Engineer
14 10 (2.11%) Senior Software Development Engineer
14 10 (2.11%) Senior Software Engineer
14 10 (2.11%) Software Development Engineer
14 10 (2.11%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.02%) Elastic Stack
1 19 (4.02%) OpenTelemetry
2 12 (2.54%) REST
3 9 (1.90%) Keras
3 9 (1.90%) PyTorch
3 9 (1.90%) TensorFlow
3 9 (1.90%) YAML
4 5 (1.06%) .NET
5 3 (0.63%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (0.42%) CSS
6 2 (0.42%) HTML
6 2 (0.42%) Next.js
7 1 (0.21%) EDI
7 1 (0.21%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.21%) Flask
7 1 (0.21%) PySpark
7 1 (0.21%) RESTful
7 1 (0.21%) SOAP
7 1 (0.21%) Spring
7 1 (0.21%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 91 (19.24%) Product Ownership
2 39 (8.25%) Self-Motivation
3 38 (8.03%) Onboarding
4 27 (5.71%) Management Information System
5 15 (3.17%) Cloud Native
6 12 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (2.33%) Social Media
8 10 (2.11%) Public Cloud
9 9 (1.90%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.90%) Security Posture
10 8 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.48%) Data Fabric
11 7 (1.48%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (1.27%) IoT
12 6 (1.27%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.06%) Driving Licence
13 5 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (1.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 4 (0.85%) Solar Energy
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.65%) Linux
2 19 (4.02%) Unix
3 5 (1.06%) Windows
4 2 (0.42%) zOS
5 1 (0.21%) Android
5 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (52.64%) Roadmaps
2 198 (41.86%) Agile
3 132 (27.91%) Product Roadmap
4 108 (22.83%) Product Strategy
5 105 (22.20%) Stakeholder Management
6 104 (21.99%) Continuous Improvement
7 90 (19.03%) Mentoring
8 89 (18.82%) AI
8 89 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
9 77 (16.28%) Analytics
10 71 (15.01%) Product Vision
11 70 (14.80%) User Experience
12 67 (14.16%) Information Security
13 61 (12.90%) Coaching
14 60 (12.68%) Decision-Making
14 60 (12.68%) Project Management
15 56 (11.84%) Business Development
16 48 (10.15%) B2B
17 47 (9.94%) Software Engineering
17 47 (9.94%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 43 (9.09%) Python
2 32 (6.77%) Java
3 28 (5.92%) SQL
4 23 (4.86%) JavaScript
5 20 (4.23%) Go
6 19 (4.02%) Bash
7 9 (1.90%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.85%) C#
9 2 (0.42%) Bicep
9 2 (0.42%) COBOL
9 2 (0.42%) JCL
9 2 (0.42%) PHP
9 2 (0.42%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.21%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.21%) R
10 1 (0.21%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 87 (18.39%) Degree
2 39 (8.25%) Master's Degree
3 29 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (5.07%) Security Cleared
5 20 (4.23%) AWS Certification
6 14 (2.96%) SC Cleared
7 7 (1.48%) DBS Check
7 7 (1.48%) PMI Certification
7 7 (1.48%) PMP
8 6 (1.27%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.27%) MBA
9 4 (0.85%) SAP Certification
10 3 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.63%) HNC
11 2 (0.42%) CSPO
12 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.21%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.21%) CFA
12 1 (0.21%) IIBA
12 1 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.65%) QA
2 15 (3.17%) Data Quality
3 13 (2.75%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (2.11%) NCSC
6 9 (1.90%) NIST
7 6 (1.27%) GDPR
8 5 (1.06%) IFRS
8 5 (1.06%) ISO 20022
8 5 (1.06%) PMO
8 5 (1.06%) SLA
9 2 (0.42%) COREP
9 2 (0.42%) FINREP
9 2 (0.42%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.42%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.42%) SEPA
10 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.21%) GMP
10 1 (0.21%) PSD2
10 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (4.44%) Docker
2 2 (0.42%) RACF
3 1 (0.21%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 23 (4.86%) Terraform
2 21 (4.44%) Kubernetes
3 19 (4.02%) Ansible
3 19 (4.02%) Argo
3 19 (4.02%) Kustomize
3 19 (4.02%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.21%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 48 (10.15%) Microsoft
2 34 (7.19%) Google
3 13 (2.75%) Salesforce
4 10 (2.11%) Adobe
5 9 (1.90%) Databricks
5 9 (1.90%) Dell
5 9 (1.90%) NVIDIA
6 8 (1.69%) Oracle
6 8 (1.69%) SAP
7 7 (1.48%) Foundry
8 4 (0.85%) Sage
8 4 (0.85%) Toshiba
8 4 (0.85%) YouTube
9 3 (0.63%) Apple
9 3 (0.63%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.63%) ION Trading
9 3 (0.63%) Patsystems
9 3 (0.63%) Reuters
9 3 (0.63%) Tenable
9 3 (0.63%) Trayport